Color Cat Studios: gnomes

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Friday, December 11, 2020

The Gnome is HERE!!

What a special Christmas gift!! Here he is! You can find him here to purchase:

colorcatstudios101.etsy.com

Aaand... man, if you could help me name this guy I’m sure you’d do a lot better than me. So far I’ve got ‘Christmas Gnome.’ Pretty boring name, huh? Help!

Isn’t he just so cute? I adore him!

There you go! More photos are on my website. :). Think of that very special person that you still haven’t bought a gift for.

FINI! And I love him!! Here’s a tiny peek of part of the piece. I’ll post the entire painting soon and I’m popping this adorable gnome on my website tonight! He’s 11x14 on canvas and looking to bring some good cheer to YOU! $200.00 to the first one that gets to him.

Friday, December 4, 2020

Gnome Art :)

All right... the guesses are on. Can you tell what it is? I don’t usually post unfinished work but this one’s so... surrealistic that I though you’d enjoy seeing it. Should we name it now? All that paint for these colors. Stay tuned...

Here’s the setup:

And paints...

Thursday, December 3, 2020

Gnome Art

I just popped my three gnomes on my website; click on

colorcatstudios101.etsy.com

I named them Hippy Gnome, Fatty Gnome and Mr. Attitude Gnome. Can you tell which is which? Get ‘em while you can; I only have these three.

Turkish tour

Another look at those natural color-sources. I asked about cochineal, because you couldn't just have that on a shelf, and yes, their deep reds are cochineal. It's a South American insect that is a parasite to the prickly pear. Owners deposit them into their fields, and blow them off and collect them once they're big. Then they crush their fat, bloody bodies for a nice, natural, red dye. I'm so happy to report that the rug we purchased has cochineal in it. I'm also happy to report that it's likely in your lipstick and blush, ladies, and if you drink cherry coke - it's in there, too! :)

'My' Chair

At our theatre the other night we had an orchestra meeting after I taught my sets class. After about a half hour, someone pulled me out of the meeting for a few minutes. When I came back, everyone in the room was laughing and pointing to the nice, uh, black leather chair. I had paint on the back of my shirt, and it permanently smeared all over the leather! The last time I went in the office, I noticed that someone had taped up the sign you see here. One way to lay claim to something! Well, it's not the first time, let's see, there's my driveway with many colors of paint, our carpet with Peter Pan green footprints, my car with yellow paint on the seat, my gloves, half of my clothes. It seems like everyone likes my painted clothes, kind of like already-broken-in-jeans. Maybe I should start a clothing line!